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Welcome to EddieGoldman.com.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)Blogger1767125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-7939479615681032711Sat, 01 Aug 2015 10:42:00 +00002015-08-01T06:42:37.156-04:00AmarilloEddie GoldmanExtreme FightingMMANo Holds BarredRalph GracieshootfightingshootwrestlingSteve NelsonTexasUnified Shoot Wrestling FederationUSWFwrestlingNo Holds Barred: Steve Nelson and the Unified Shoot Wrestling Federation (USWF)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5JI8Bf1IzIY/VbsnmKnThrI/AAAAAAAAHOs/yWeBPc_XiqY/s1600/USWF11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5JI8Bf1IzIY/VbsnmKnThrI/AAAAAAAAHOs/yWeBPc_XiqY/s320/USWF11.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman reposts an interview with Steve Nelson, who fought in and ran the Unified Shoot Wrestling Federation (USWF) in the 1990s in Amarillo, Texas. <br /><br />This organization, which was one of the most successful local promotions of its time, held fights under what were called shootfighting rules, with only open hand strikes allowed, but with all submissions as well as kicks and knees permitted. It was thus a mixture of catch wrestling and MMA.<br /><br />Steve was also a headliner in the company's most famous fight, when he took on Ralph Gracie, who had defeated him in under a minute in 1996 under no holds barred rules in Battlecade/Extreme Fighting 2 in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake near Montreal. The rematch took place August 22, 1998, as the main event of the USWF 11 show in Amarillo.<br /><br />This fight was my selection as the 1998 Fight of the Year in mixed discipline combat sports.<br /><br />A video of this fight can be seen <b><a href="https://youtu.be/IfhZX5y2Jn8" target="_blank">here</a></b>.<br /><br />This interview was originally recorded in August 2008 to mark the tenth anniversary of his classic USWF fight with Ralph Gracie.<br /><br />While MMA in the U.S. was facing many difficulties in 1998, the USWF, which just ran shows in Amarillo and West Texas, was drawing large crowds of upwards of 4000 fans. <br /><br />Explaining this, Steve Nelson pointed out, "We didn't have a TV show. All we had was, we had posters around the town. I went and did a lot of interviews. So the other fighters did their interviews, too, on the radio, and we were pulling these kind of crowds."<br /><br />They were so successful at the art of local promotion in the late 1990s that, "We were the top-drawing martial arts company in the United States at the time."<br /><br />Much has changed since then, of course, with the USWF soon peaking and closing down a few years later. Many of its top stars then focused on MMA, including the late USWF and UFC champion Evan Tanner, or coaching wrestling like Steve, Paul Jones, and others.<br /><br />Steve had been the head coach of the boy's and girl's wrestling teams at Palo Duro High School in Amarillo for many years, but retired from teaching and coaching in December 2013. He now works full-time as the manager of Sakura Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi Bar in Amarillo.<br /><br />In our original lengthy interview, we spoke with Steve about the USWF and its history; his fights with Ralph Gracie; some of the fighters from the USWF who became notable in MMA; important tips for promoters, especially local promoters who need to avoid quickly losing money (which is today particularly important for those running catch wrestling and grappling shows); the accomplishments of the wrestling teams he coached; and much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-07-31T00_10_13-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredSteveNelsonAndTheUnifiedShootWrestlingFederationuswf" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/08/no-holds-barred-steve-nelson-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-8482554034812787538Tue, 28 Jul 2015 06:00:00 +00002015-07-28T02:00:20.386-04:00AsiaEddie GoldmanMMANo Holds BarredONE ChampionshipVictor CuiNo Holds Barred: Victor Cui on ONE Championship 2015 and 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4Et9-LOAzzw/VbaSQ9g9-pI/AAAAAAAAHOI/KXDz_zxRPd0/s1600/ONE%2Bfor%2BNHB%2B0715.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4Et9-LOAzzw/VbaSQ9g9-pI/AAAAAAAAHOI/KXDz_zxRPd0/s320/ONE%2Bfor%2BNHB%2B0715.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with Victor Cui, the CEO of <b><a href="http://www.onefc.com/" target="_blank">ONE Championship</a></b>.<br /><br />Only a bit under four years old but already established as both the largest MMA promotion in Asia by far and one of the largest in the world, ONE Championship has another ambitious schedule set for the remainder of 2015 and more plans for expansion in 2016.<br /><br />To find out the details, we spoke with Victor Cui by Skype Saturday.<br /><br />"We've been able to grow exponentially every year and to really tap the new markets," he said, noting the support ONE Championship has gotten from sponsors, governments, and media.<br /><br />"This last half of the year is definitely packed. We announced our next six events," he said.<br /><br />So far, this is the schedule for ONE Championship for the remainder of 2015:<br /><br />ONE: DYNASTY OF CHAMPIONS (SHANGHAI), 1 September in Shanghai, China<br /><br />ONE: ODYSSEY OF CHAMPIONS, 27 September in Jakarta, Indonesia<br /><br />ONE: TIGERS OF ASIA, 9 October in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<br /><br />ONE: BATTLE AT THE GATES, 7 November in Macau, China<br /><br />ONE: PRIDE OF LIONS, 13 November in Singapore<br /><br />ONE: SPIRIT OF CHAMPIONS, 11 December in Manila, Philippines<br /><br />But wait, there's more!<br /><br />"We've got several others that I'm going to announce in the upcoming weeks that we're going to add to that schedule," he revealed.<br /><br />"So it's a busy, busy year for us."<br /><br />Their most recent event, on July 18, marked the promotion's debut in the country of Myanmar. On that card's main event, ONE Championship's bantamweight champion, Bibiano Fernandes, who is known as a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu specialist, successfully defended his belt with a third-round TKO victory against Finnish fighter Toni Tauru, ending the fight with a three-punch combination.<br /><br />Their next card, on September 1 in the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, China, will see the promotion's debut in that city, which is both the largest in China and in the world. On that card's main event, ONE middleweight champion Igor Svirid of Kazakhstan will defend his belt against the unbeaten challenger Vitaly Bigdash of Russia. <br /><br />We also discussed the organization's growth, their building of "Asian heroes" and regional and national champions, how they navigated between the government and anti-government rebels in Myanmar, plans to expand to even more countries in Asia in 2016, and much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-07-26T22_51_25-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredVictorCuiOnOneChampionship2015And2016" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/07/no-holds-barred-victor-cui-on-one.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-414843053200374567Sat, 25 Jul 2015 20:00:00 +00002015-07-25T16:00:20.034-04:00Antonio GraceffoAsiaBJJBrazilian Jiu-Jitsucatch wrestlingChinaEddie GoldmangrapplingMMANo Holds BarredShuai JiaoNo Holds Barred: Antonio Graceffo on Grappling, BJJ, Catch Wrestling, and MMA in Asia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UtqkiPNDZAA/VbPqeb-nx4I/AAAAAAAAHNY/KFrvH_ekO50/s1600/EddieAntonioGraceffo072315%2Bto%2Bedit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UtqkiPNDZAA/VbPqeb-nx4I/AAAAAAAAHNY/KFrvH_ekO50/s320/EddieAntonioGraceffo072315%2Bto%2Bedit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with the writer, web show host, MMA fighter, and wrestler, <b><a href="http://speakingadventure.com/" target="_blank">Antonio Graceffo</a></b>.<br /><br />Now in the final year of his studies at the Shanghai University of Sport in Shanghai, China, where he will complete his Ph.D. next year, he also is a teacher and a member of the traditional wrestling (Shuai Jiao) team there.<br /><br />Born in Brooklyn, known as the "Brooklyn Monk", and raised in Tennessee, we spoke with him Friday in New York while he was in town.<br /><br />Among the many things on this trip he has done are training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at Matt Serra's gym in Long Island, training in judo in Long Island, and training in submission wrestling with Sambo Steve Koepfer at New York Combat Sambo. He commented that, based on what he has seen, both in the U.S. and in Asia, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighters are much better at newaza or ground fighting than judo athletes.<br /><br />In Asia, he said, most traditional forms of wrestling emphasize throws from the standing position and have little or no ground fighting.<br /><br />"All these wrestling forms are dying," he said.<br /><br />However, "There's been a resurgence in interest even in the traditional forms because of MMA." With more athletes in the lighter weight classes than in the West, many of them have been training in local wrestling clubs to improve their ground skills so they could achieve success in MMA.<br /><br />We also discussed how most of the grappling tournaments in Asia are dominated by people from BJJ, how catch wrestling is not well developed there, how there are some tournaments which are called catch wrestling but do not have pins, his plans to continue teaching and of course training after he gets his Ph.D., the catch wrestling and self-defense training he saw in Singapore at the Kapap Academy, and much more.<br /><br />Also, as a follow-up to our previous show, we received the following addition to the comments made in our interview with Larry Hazzard, Sr., the commissioner of the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board: <br /><br />"For clarification, I am completely in favor of the Muhammad Ali Act, but I do not believe that Al Haymon has violated the act. I also respect other promoters' rights to pursue their redress, but I believe that the boxers are benefitting from the PBC and I think that Al Haymon took a very smart approach to reviving the sport. Also, the ABC leadership never discussed this issue with its commission membership before issuing the letter to the U.S. Attorney General."<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-07-25T12_23_22-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredAntonioGraceffoOnGrapplingBjjCatchWrestlingAndMma" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/07/no-holds-barred-antonio-graceffo-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-2675383697169526581Wed, 22 Jul 2015 20:18:00 +00002015-07-22T16:18:58.775-04:00Al HaymonEddie GoldmanLarry HazzardNew JerseyNo Holds BarredPBCPremier Boxing ChampionsNo Holds Barred: Larry Hazzard, Sr. on Why PBC is Good for Boxing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4W6pZvbIO8g/Va_4p_72PkI/AAAAAAAAHMg/GG_d94c_rUc/s1600/EddieLarryHazzard%2B111707.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4W6pZvbIO8g/Va_4p_72PkI/AAAAAAAAHMg/GG_d94c_rUc/s320/EddieLarryHazzard%2B111707.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with the long-time commissioner of the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board, <b><a href="http://nj.gov/oag/sacb/director_bio.html" target="_blank">Larry Hazzard, Sr.</a></b><br /><br />Boxing has been reviving this year, with all-time records being smashed by the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight and overall renewed interest in the sport. In addition to an increase in ratings on the mainly premium TV networks which have telecast boxing in the U.S. for many years, the almost weekly shows in the Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) series on broadcast and non-premium networks have sparked more awareness of the many boxers featured on these shows.<br /><br />To discuss these developments, we spoke with Larry Hazzard, Sr. by phone Wednesday. And he is very positive about the PBC, giving it a B+ for its efforts so far.<br /><br />"These guys are being paid handsome purses," he said, referring to the fighters. <br /><br />"And it's just a good thing all around. For the fighter, it's a good thing all around for the fans, and it's the greatest thing that has happened to the sport of boxing I would say in the last decade or so."<br /><br />We discussed how PBC has mainly featured legitimate competition and many fights resulting in upsets, how the use of free TV has helped bring in new sponsors, how fighters are making more money on PBC shows than they ever have, how the focus of the PBC is on the fighters, and more.<br /><br />As for the critics of the PBC who are bringing legal action against it, and the statement supposedly from the president of the Association of Boxing Commissions (ABC) calling for U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to investigate the PBC, he minced no words.<br /><br />"They're full of shit," he said of those in the ABC who oppose PBC. "The ABC doesn't represent New Jersey," he added.<br /><br />Accusations of violations of the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act are baseless, he said, which was a law designed to "stop Don King" a generation ago. The charge that PBC, which is not a promotional entity, uses "sham promoters" is also baseless, as long-time and noted promoters like DiBella Entertainment, Warriors Boxing, TGB Promotions, and even Don King Productions have promoted or co-promoted many PBC shows.<br /><br />The opposition from rival promoters is because, he said, PBC, with its innovative business plan and use of multiple promoters, has "outsmarted so many of these other promoters." He said he calls PBC "smart business people." And as far as the ABC, he said, "It's all a bunch of b.s., and they know it."<br /><br />We also discussed what tweaks are needed for the PBC's television presentation and marketing, the possibility of a fight between Floyd Mayweather and Andre Berto, the move to revive boxing in Atlantic City, and much, much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-07-22T12_38_18-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredLarryHazzardSr.OnWhyPbcIsGoodForBoxing" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/07/no-holds-barred-larry-hazzard-sr-on-why.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-7133582944513309748Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:02:00 +00002015-07-20T16:02:46.555-04:00boxingCarl FramptonEddie GoldmanJulio César Chávez Jr.No Holds BarredScott QuiggvulnerabilitiesNo Holds Barred: The Vulnerabilities of Julio César Chávez Jr., Carl Frampton, Scott Quigg, and Boxing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7vx0vm05nRM/Va1SSTgqQ5I/AAAAAAAAHMA/6rPNPVMQp-g/s1600/boxing%2B072015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7vx0vm05nRM/Va1SSTgqQ5I/AAAAAAAAHMA/6rPNPVMQp-g/s320/boxing%2B072015.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />(Chavez-Reyes photo by Esther Lin/Showtime. Frampton-Gonzalez photos by Esther Lin/CBS. Photo of Scott Quigg by Lawrence Lustig.)<br /><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman discusses the fights this past Saturday, July 18, involving Julio César Chávez Jr., Carl Frampton, and Scott Quigg.<br /><br />In El Paso, Texas, Chávez Jr. (49-2-1, 32 KOs), the son of the Mexican boxing legend Julio César Chávez, won a lackluster decision over the smaller Marcos Reyes (33-3, 24 KOs). Earlier that day also in El Paso, the unbeaten Frampton (21-0, 14 KOs), the IBF 122-pound champion, survived two first-round knockdowns to win a unanimous decision over challenger Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. (25-2-2, 15 KOs). The Chavez Jr.-Reyes fight headlined a Showtime telecast in the U.S., while Frampton-Gonzalez headlined a Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) telecast on CBS in the U.S., and was also shown on ITV in the U.K. and UTV in Ireland.<br /><br />At the same time as the Frampton-Gonzalez card took place, a major card in Manchester, England, and on Sky Sports in the U.K., featured a fight between the unbeaten WBA 122-pound champion Scott Quigg (31-0-2, 23 KOs) and challenger Kiko Martinez (32-6, 24 KOs). After Martinez seemed to pressure Quigg and win the first round, Quigg came back in the second to drop Martinez twice, resulting in the referee stopping the fight and a TKO win for Quigg.<br /><br />With talk turning to a Frampton-Quigg super fight or for each fighter to face other opponents, we discuss both the victories and the vulnerabilities of both fighters, as well as those of Chávez Jr.. We also discuss how people in boxing react to vulnerabilities, which obviously everyone has, as well as the vulnerabilities of the sport itself, and much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-07-20T12_36_39-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredTheVulnerabilitiesOfJulioCsarChvezJr.Carl" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/07/no-holds-barred-vulnerabilities-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-813770288719223430Tue, 14 Jul 2015 20:03:00 +00002015-07-14T16:03:28.618-04:00BostonEddie GoldmanIOCJonathan CohnNo Holds BarredNoBoston2024OlympicsU.S. Olympic CommitteeUSOCNo Holds Barred: Jonathan Cohn on Opposing Boston Hosting the 2024 Olympics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_I-lAT3TP78/VaVppcyqXiI/AAAAAAAAHLM/ICcgJ0vHuA0/s1600/NoBoston2024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_I-lAT3TP78/VaVppcyqXiI/AAAAAAAAHLM/ICcgJ0vHuA0/s320/NoBoston2024.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mtRr8IAK-_0/VaVpsKap71I/AAAAAAAAHLU/GU-zHFHAWYc/s1600/Jonathan%2BCohn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mtRr8IAK-_0/VaVpsKap71I/AAAAAAAAHLU/GU-zHFHAWYc/s320/Jonathan%2BCohn.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with Jonathan Cohn, who is involved with the movement to oppose Boston hosting the 2024 Olympics, and is a co-founder and an organizer with <b><a href="http://www.noboston2024.org/" target="_blank">NoBoston2024</a></b>.<br /><br />We spoke with Jonathan Cohn by phone Sunday.<br /><br />While the U.S. Olympic Committee is sticking with Boston as its candidate city to host the 2024 Olympics, the latest opinion polls still show that a majority of people in and around Boston oppose this bid. Yet they are not opposing sports or even Olympic sports as such.<br /><br />"At the community meetings we've had, there are many people who have noted that they do like the Olympics and they are very big sports fans, but they don't want the Olympics here just because of the long history of the corruption and the damage done to host cities," he said.<br /><br />"Boston is very much a sports town and people enjoy and are proud of their local teams. But the Olympics increasingly is less about sports than it is about real estate and than it is about, because it's a money-making opportunity for its corporate sponsors."<br /><br />We discussed how the people of Boston and the surrounding region have been kept out of the process of this bid; the lack of transparency of Boston 2024, the official bid committee; how much of this bid is really a "land grab"; how the Olympic Games usually lead to a financial net loss for the host cities and even a decline in tourism; how the massive debts incurred by Greece for hosting the 2004 Athens Olympics were one factor exacerbating that country's economic and debt crises; how NoBoston2024 has had to use public records' requests to obtain information on the details of this bid; the powerful use of social media in educating people and organizing people against the bid; and much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-07-14T12_27_40-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredJonathanCohnOnOpposingBostonHostingThe2024Olympics" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/07/no-holds-barred-jonathan-cohn-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-2431349805824361541Sun, 12 Jul 2015 14:25:00 +00002015-07-12T10:25:23.107-04:00BJJcatch wrestlingEddie GoldmangrapplingGrizzly Gymjiu-jitsuLuis CiraizMike MartelleMMANo Holds BarredNo Holds Barred: Luis Ciraiz on Catch Wrestling, Grappling, BJJ, and MMA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ybHhIY6iEHU/VaIc3wG4VuI/AAAAAAAAHKc/XWf8rd5uGoE/s1600/Luis%2BCiraiz%2Bat%2BGrizzly%2BGym%2Bto%2Bedit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="319" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ybHhIY6iEHU/VaIc3wG4VuI/AAAAAAAAHKc/XWf8rd5uGoE/s320/Luis%2BCiraiz%2Bat%2BGrizzly%2BGym%2Bto%2Bedit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with catch wrestler <b><a href="http://ciraiz.com/" target="_blank">Luis Ciraiz</a></b>.<br /><br />Based in Guatemala, he has been visiting North America the past few weeks on a catch wrestling and grappling tour. He won a championship in the master's division at the NAGA U.S. Open Championship on July 4 in Winter Park, Florida, USA. Then he traveled to Mike Martelle's Grizzly Gym in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, to hold a seminar on July 11 as well as a small catch wrestling tournament.<br /><br />We spoke with Luis Ciraiz by phone Saturday night after the seminar and tournament.<br /><br />"It was really cool," he said. "I got to meet many people. It was really awesome to have the opportunity to teach in Grizzly Gym. Actually that is the headquarters of our whole organization around the world."<br /><br />For the seminar and tournament, "We had even the Grizzly Gym people from Philadelphia coming over, Professor Allen Chambers and one of his guys," he said. "We just had a lot of fun."<br /><br />We discussed the importance of catch wrestlers entering grappling tournaments like NAGA's and "doing catch wrestling" to show its effectiveness even under rules where there are no pins and some submissions are not allowed. Many of the people in these tournaments have jiu-jitsu backgrounds, he noted, and are not used to the takedowns and leglocks of the catch wrestlers, as well as the physicality many wrestlers have.<br /><br />While he will not be competing in this year's ADCC World Submission Fighting Championships in Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 29-30, he noted that this is the "best level of competition" in grappling in the world, and he would like to qualify for this event in the future.<br /><br />We also discussed how the victories of catch wrestlers like Josh Barnett in martial arts tournaments have helped raise awareness of the value of this sport; how there have been tournaments for the past eight years in Guatemala, including this year's Let's Shoot catch wrestling tournament with over 100 competitors; how catch wrestling is actually bigger than jiu-jitsu in Guatemala; his experiences as an undefeated MMA fighter mainly using his grappling techniques, which some promoters don't like; the need to develop a more standard set of rules for catch wrestling; and much, much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-07-12T00_13_38-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredLuisCiraizOnCatchWrestlingGrapplingBjjAndMma" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/07/no-holds-barred-luis-ciraiz-on-catch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-6776580506623472579Thu, 09 Jul 2015 06:39:00 +00002015-07-09T02:39:03.861-04:00boxingdisinformationEddie GoldmanFloyd MayweatherJamie ConlanJunior GranadosKeith ThurmanLuis CollazomediamisinformationNo Holds BarredPBC on ESPNNo Holds Barred: The Fight Against Boxing Misinformation and Disinformation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ATb4ti6JQ0Q/VZ4Ux-icGSI/AAAAAAAAHJ8/hAuxLmGjlcU/s1600/Fighting%2BBoxing%2BMisinformation%2Band%2BDisinformation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="319" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ATb4ti6JQ0Q/VZ4Ux-icGSI/AAAAAAAAHJ8/hAuxLmGjlcU/s320/Fighting%2BBoxing%2BMisinformation%2Band%2BDisinformation.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman discusses the misinformation in the boxing media about this coming Saturday's PBC on ESPN Thurman-Collazo card; the idiotic over-reporting in the mainstream media about what should have been a footnote with laughter on one of the alphabet soup groups stripping Floyd Mayweather of its belt; the failure of much of the boxing media to notice that this past Saturday's Jamie Conlan-Junior Granados battle in Dublin was a thrilling fight of the year candidate; and more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-07-08T23_17_13-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredTheFightAgainstBoxingMisinformationAndDisinformation" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/07/no-holds-barred-fight-against-boxing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-6975243148992963483Sun, 05 Jul 2015 19:00:00 +00002015-07-05T15:00:39.363-04:00arm wrestlingEddie GoldmanNo Holds BarredPALProfessional Armwrestling LeagueRichard LupkesNo Holds Barred: Richard Lupkes on July 12 PAL Arm Wrestling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bHCAxL1j5ec/VZjG1I4WypI/AAAAAAAAHJE/jH59wtILCDA/s1600/PAL%2Bfor%2BNHB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bHCAxL1j5ec/VZjG1I4WypI/AAAAAAAAHJE/jH59wtILCDA/s320/PAL%2Bfor%2BNHB.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with the multi-time world and national champion arm wrestler <b><a href="http://en.armpower.net/competitors/richard-lupkes-12800.html" target="_blank">Richard Lupkes</a></b>.<br /><br />Known as the father of arm wrestling in Minnesota where he lives on his farm, and now 58 years old, he is still actively competing. He will be facing Andrey Pushkar of Ukraine in a super heavyweight match on what will be the first in a series of regularly scheduled cards in Las Vegas under the Professional Armwrestling League (PAL) USA banner.<br /><br />This four-match card, called "Vendetta in Vegas", takes place Sunday, July 12, at Vinyl at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. It will be televised on tape-delay in the U.S. on CBS Sports Network and internationally as well.<br /><br />We spoke with Richard Lupkes by phone Thursday.<br /><br />While he has an experience advantage on his opponent, Andrey Pushkar, who is just 29, many are asking how his age will affect his performance, especially with each match consisting of a best-of-six rounds format, with only a one-minute break between rounds.<br /><br />"Well, it's definitely been getting a lot harder," he said. "I felt actually really good up to about 54. Now these last four or five years it's starting to catch up to me," he said, with a laugh.<br /><br />"I spend probably two to three hours in a gym. I really enjoy working out with the weights. I don't practice as much the arm wrestling."<br /><br />He said he still does "luckily win some matches here and there. And I know it's going to be a big uphill grind here against Andrey, but I'm really looking forward to it. It should be an interesting match."<br /><br />We also discussed how he trains other athletes in sports like wrestling and football, the potential for arm wrestling to grow in the U.S. as a spectator sport in part because "everybody's done it", how arm wrestling is "huge" in Europe with regular TV shows, his recovery from a torn biceps which had sidelined him for several years, and much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-07-04T22_38_19-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredRichardLupkesOnJuly12PalArmWrestling" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/07/no-holds-barred-richard-lupkes-on-july.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-1142282110781775158Wed, 01 Jul 2015 23:54:00 +00002015-07-01T19:54:59.038-04:00Al HaymonboxingEddie GoldmanESPNKeith ThurmanLuis CollazoNo Holds BarredPBCPremier Boxing ChampionsNo Holds Barred: Keith Thurman, Luis Collazo, PBC at Mid-Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6CMz3TYMUwM/VZR8XJ9rfiI/AAAAAAAAHIY/B93eRXLukKg/s1600/Thurman%2BCollazo%2Bbanner%2Bto%2Bedit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6CMz3TYMUwM/VZR8XJ9rfiI/AAAAAAAAHIY/B93eRXLukKg/s320/Thurman%2BCollazo%2Bbanner%2Bto%2Bedit.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with WBA welterweight champion Keith Thurman (25-0, 21 KOs) and former welterweight champion Luis Collazo (36-6, 19 KOs), who fight Saturday, July 11, at the USF Sun Dome in Tampa, Florida. This fight will be telecast live in the U.S. on ESPN, and will be the first on that network for the Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) series. <br /><br />We spoke with both Keith Thurman and Luis Collazo on Tuesday's media conference call.<br /><br />We also evaluate the progress of the PBC in the first half of 2015, and conclude that while a number of errors have been made, overall PBC deserves a grade of B or B-, with many more positive accomplishments than negative ones. Still, PBC needs to do more in terms of making stars out of its fighters and creating buzz, as well as utilizing the Internet and social media better than they do now.<br /><br />While PBC has been running live boxing shows on network and basic cable channels almost every week since March, promoters like Top Rank and Golden Boy, who could not get such exposure despite being around far longer than PBC, have opted to sue PBC, instead of changing their ways. We discuss why these suits are mostly baseless, although the issue of PBC acting as both a promoter and manager for fighters, especially when TV plays such a key role in the business of boxing, will have to be addressed.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-07-01T16_18_19-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredKeithThurmanLuisCollazoPbcAtMid-year" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/07/no-holds-barred-keith-thurman-luis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-6169146092133448066Sun, 28 Jun 2015 13:55:00 +00002015-06-28T09:55:17.897-04:00Al HaymonAmerican Top TeamBellator MMA DynamiteBlack Lives MatterboxingEddie GoldmanKing Mo LawalNo Holds BarredPBCRicardo LiborioNo Holds Barred: King Mo on Bellator MMA Dynamite, PBC and Boxing, and Black Lives Matter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VZ6evCBmQew/VY_4TIehNmI/AAAAAAAAHHw/RzmUOuSMnLM/s1600/EddieKingMo090514%2Bto%2Bedit%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VZ6evCBmQew/VY_4TIehNmI/AAAAAAAAHHw/RzmUOuSMnLM/s320/EddieKingMo090514%2Bto%2Bedit%2B2.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with Bellator MMA and American Top Team fighter <b><a href="https://twitter.com/KingMoFH" target="_blank">"King" Mo Lawal</a></b>.<br /><br />He will be returning to action on the Bellator MMA: Dynamite!!! card Saturday, September 19, in a four-man, one-night light heavyweight tournament to determine Bellator's number one contender in this division. The other fighters in this tournament are former Bellator champion Emanuel Newton, Linton Vassell, and 2008 NCAA Div. I wrestling champion Phil Davis, who will be making his Bellator debut. This card, which is headlined by a light heavyweight title fight between unbeaten champion Liam McGeary and MMA legend Tito Ortiz, takes place at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, and will be telecast live in the U.S. on Spike.<br /><br />We spoke with "King" Mo Lawal by phone Friday.<br /><br />Speaking about potentially, and in his case hopefully, having two fights on the same card, he said that he became aware of this format "when everybody else did, so it still hasn't registered yet. I feel like it will register more when camp starts because I have to maneuver my training a little bit more, because I have to train for two fights, not just one five-round fight." <br /><br />He continued, "It's just going to be a little different. I have to break my training up differently, so I'm still figuring out how to do that. But I'm looking forward to the challenge. I'm excited there's a possibility of this happening. To me, I always say 'possibility' now, because you never know what's going to happen until the weigh-ins end. So I'm really looking forward to this happening and I'm looking forward to training for it."<br /><br />"King" Mo is also a big boxing aficionado, having trained with Jeff Mayweather as well as many pro and amateur boxers. He follows boxing very closely, so we also discussed the recent revival of boxing, especially in the U.S., and the role of the controversial Al Haymon and the Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) series of shows on numerous TV networks.<br /><br />Saying that in many ways boxing is "the opposite of MMA," he argued that PBC has the "right plan" to build new stars and expose more fans to boxing. Even some of the PBC's fights in which one fighter is heavily favored do not hurt this plan, as he noted that most boxing fans "want knockouts" and that is what will be displayed on PBC's many telecasts on free TV.<br /><br />He also has taken to social media to comment on the series of racist terror attacks on unarmed Black men and women by police and others which have taken place across the U.S., and the growth of the Black Lives Matter movement. As an African-American and a son of immigrants, he grew up in the American South, he said, and "I've seen it all." We also discussed why many boxers and athletes in other sports have also been outspoken on these issues, while few in MMA have for fear of losing their fan base.<br /><br />We also discussed how he is helping the legendary Ricardo Liborio prepare for his ADCC superfight with Mario Sperry, how his health is now better than when he had a nasty staph infection and then was taking antibiotics which hindered some of his performances, and much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-06-28T06_14_18-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredKingMoOnBellatorMmaDynamitePbcAndBoxingAndBlack" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/06/no-holds-barred-king-mo-on-bellator-mma.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-4508630216356000171Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:53:00 +00002015-06-24T05:53:08.064-04:00BJJBrazilian Jiu-Jitsucatch wrestlingEddie GoldmangrapplingNo Holds BarredTravis NewazaNo Holds Barred: Travis Newaza on Catch Wrestling, Grappling, and BJJ<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uvWhMci0gsI/VYipfOSdR5I/AAAAAAAAHG0/WDRAfIBuyfc/s1600/TravisNewaza062115a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uvWhMci0gsI/VYipfOSdR5I/AAAAAAAAHG0/WDRAfIBuyfc/s320/TravisNewaza062115a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>Travis Newaza rolling with Sambo Steve Koepfer.</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EmhvQm058UA/VYiphxgk_JI/AAAAAAAAHG8/qUnFq2eLszI/s1600/TravisNewazaAdamRoman2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EmhvQm058UA/VYiphxgk_JI/AAAAAAAAHG8/qUnFq2eLszI/s320/TravisNewazaAdamRoman2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>Travis Newaza and Adam Roman, West Coast King of Catch Wrestling champions.</b><br /><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with grappler and martial artist <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Travisnewazaoffical" target="_blank">Travis Newaza</a></b>.<br /><br />Besides competing in numerous tournaments in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and grappling, he has also been training in catch wrestling and many styles of combat sports with Josh Barnett and Erik Paulson.<br /><br />On January 11, 2015, he was victorious in the absolute and heavyweight divisions of the West Coast King of Catch Wrestling Tournament held in San Diego, California, and won the Outstanding Competitor Award, winning all his matches by submissions.<br /><br />A serious neck injury, however, has recently sidelined him from competition. He is currently on a national seminar tour, in part aimed at raising funds to help pay for an expensive corrective procedure.<br /><br />We spoke with Travis Newaza by phone Sunday.<br /><br />He had just completed a seminar at Sambo Steve Koepfer's New York Combat Sambo, and was himself very impressed.<br /><br />"It was such an honor to, one, be able to be invited to Sambo Steve's academy," he said. "I'm a big fan of what Sambo Steve has done for the sport of sambo."<br /><br />And he added, "And two, man, is he just a wealth to be drawn from, so many different styles of grappling that we're not really used to seeing."<br /><br />He will be continuing his seminar tour across the U.S., with upcoming dates in Florida, Kansas City, Missouri, Los Angeles, and other cities.<br /><br />The seminars, like his own competitions, do not focus on one style or discipline.<br /><br />"I've never really been worried about rulesets," he said. "You should be able to adapt."<br /><br />And that applies to everythng in grappling.<br /><br />"I love to learn from all the different arts. Nothing's ever been off-limits. I'll put on the kimono. I'll take it off. I'll put on the kurtka. I'll take it off. I do judo. I love all those things," he said.<br /><br />"It's all wrestling. It's all grappling."<br /><br />We discussed what got him to start training so seriously in these styles of grappling three years ago, his hopes of bringing grappling training to non-profit youth organizations, his Newaza Apparel company, and much, much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-06-22T17_08_02-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredTravisNewazaOnCatchWrestlingGrapplingAndBjj" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/06/no-holds-barred-travis-newaza-on-catch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-947716988633549284Sat, 20 Jun 2015 18:43:00 +00002015-06-20T14:43:36.310-04:00Chris CrossanEddie GoldmanLegit Pro Wrestling UK Open Catch Wrestling ChampionshipNo Holds BarredNo Holds Barred: Chris Crossan on Legit Pro Wrestling UK Open Catch Wrestling Championship<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pu-34YtMOvk/VYT1mYqlXQI/AAAAAAAAHGY/dlVj-aI0RQE/s1600/LPW%2B062715%2B2%2Bto%2Bedit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pu-34YtMOvk/VYT1mYqlXQI/AAAAAAAAHGY/dlVj-aI0RQE/s320/LPW%2B062715%2B2%2Bto%2Bedit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with catch wrestler and martial artist Chris Crossan of <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Legit-Pro-Wrestling/512077585606427" target="_blank">Legit Pro Wrestling</a></b>.<br /><br />On Saturday, June 27, they will be holding their first event, the <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1618373915074599" target="_blank">Legit Pro Wrestling UK Open Catch Wrestling Championship</a></b>.<br /><br />This event, under catch wrestling rules where you win by pin or submission, will be held at the Billingham Synthonia, Billingham, TS23 1 Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom, and run from about 1 PM to 5 PM.<br /><br />We spoke with Chris Crossan by Skype Thursday.<br /><br />"We're just getting together a group of people for an eight-man open tournament, catch-as-catch-can rules. Let's have a knockout quarter-final, semi-final, final, to see who the winner is on the night," he said.<br /><br />"We plan to do more of these events in separate weight divisions, but for now we thought we'll start with an open weight. I think it's really important to have open tournaments where anybody is allowed to come and enter, regardless of team, affiliation, or anything. We're open to anybody."<br /><br />We discussed the lineup so far for the eight-man open weight tournament, why he believes that catch wrestling is "a great spectator sport" and in that regard "better than BJJ", the plans of Legit Pro Wrestling to run more events, the need for the catch wrestling community and organizations to work together, and much, much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-06-19T21_51_00-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredChrisCrossanOnLegitProWrestlingUkOpenCatchWrestling" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/06/no-holds-barred-chris-crossan-on-legit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-5792832983303876340Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:28:00 +00002015-06-17T17:28:23.600-04:00Andre WardBETBob MayeriboxingDeontay WilderEddie GoldmanEric MolinaErrol Spence Jr.NBCNo Holds BarredPaul SmithPBCShawn PorterSky SportsNo Holds Barred: Andre Ward, Paul Smith, Shawn Porter, Errol Spence Jr.; Plus Bob Mayeri on Wilder-Molina<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Wu8n-oLr2i8/VYHkOyfEPSI/AAAAAAAAHF4/nmurstV6F1I/s1600/boxing%2B062015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Wu8n-oLr2i8/VYHkOyfEPSI/AAAAAAAAHF4/nmurstV6F1I/s320/boxing%2B062015.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><br />(Photograph of Deontay Wilder and Eric Molina by Bob Mayeri)<br /><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman previews this Saturday's Andre Ward-Paul Smith, Shawn Porter-Adrien Broner, and Errol Spence Jr.-Roberto Garcia fights, and reviews with our correspondent Bob Mayeri this past Saturday's Deontay Wilder-Eric Molina fight.<br /><br />The 2004 U.S. Olympic gold medalist Andre Ward, with a spotless record of 27-0 and 14 KOs, and still holding a super middleweight title, will be returning to the ring after an absence of 19 months, due to injuries and legal battles. His opponent in what he refuses to call a tune-up fight is British fighter and TV commentator Paul Smith (35-5, 20 KOs), who is coming off two consecutive close losses to slugger Arthur Abraham. This fight will take place at a catch weight of 172 pounds.<br /><br />The Andre Ward-Paul Smith fight headlines a Throne Boxing card, presented by Roc Nation Sports, this Saturday, June 20, at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. It will be televised live in the U.S. on BET and streamed globally on Tidal.com at 10:00 PM ET/7:00 PM PT, as well as shown in the U.K. on Sky Sports.<br /><br />Earlier the same day, former world champion Shawn Porter (25-1-1, 16 KOs) will face another former world champion, Adrien Broner (30-1, 22 KOs), in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions on NBC (PBC on NBC) card at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. This fight, also at a catch weight, will be at a limit of 144 pounds. The co-feature will have unbeaten prospect Errol Spence Jr. (16-0, 13 KOs) facing veteran Roberto Garcia (37-3, 23 KOs) in a ten-round welterweight bout.<br /><br />The PBC on NBC telecast, this Saturday, June 20, begins in the U.S. at 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PM PT, and will also be shown in the U.K. on Sky Sports.<br /><br />We spoke with Andre Ward, Paul Smith, Shawn Porter, and Errol Spence Jr. on Monday's media conference calls.<br /><br />In his comments, Andre Ward discussed what needs to happen for him to become a mega-star like Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. Paul Smith explained why he is inspired to do his best in this fight, even though the card is aimed at showcasing the return of Andre Ward.<br /><br />Shawn Porter discussed what he has learned in his career and why he believes he will defeat Adrien Broner. Broner no-showed the conference call. Also, Errol Spence Jr. discussed why Roberto Garcia is the most experienced and one of the toughest fighters he will face. Garcia was unavailable for the conference call.<br /><br />In addition, we spoke about the ninth-round knockout win by WBC heavyweight champ Deontay Wilder (34-0, 33 KOs) over journeyman Eric Molina (23-3, 17 KOs) this past Saturday, June 13, in Birmingham, Alabama, with Bob Mayeri, who was covering and photographing that fight live in the Bartow Arena. We also discussed what might be next for Wilder, how he might fare against the top heavyweight Wladimir Klitschko, and what might be learned by those running the sport of wrestling from the promotion of this fight.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-06-17T13_36_44-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredAndreWardPaulSmithShawnPorterErrolSpenceJr.Plus" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/06/no-holds-barred-andre-ward-paul-smith.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-3531239798920224733Sun, 14 Jun 2015 22:49:00 +00002015-06-14T18:49:37.996-04:00catch wrestlingEddie GoldmanNo Holds Barredtournament scheduleNo Holds Barred: Upcoming World Catch Wrestling Tournament Schedule<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yudITo77whY/VX4Dee7A0wI/AAAAAAAAHFM/JDMgbUDRReY/s1600/2015%2BNorth%2BAmerican%2BCatch%2BWrestling%2Band%2BFreestyle%2Bto%2Bedit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yudITo77whY/VX4Dee7A0wI/AAAAAAAAHFM/JDMgbUDRReY/s320/2015%2BNorth%2BAmerican%2BCatch%2BWrestling%2Band%2BFreestyle%2Bto%2Bedit.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman discusses the upcoming catch wrestling tournaments which have been thus far announced for 2015.<br /><br />Included are:<br /><br />June 14 -- 2015 Copa Euclydes Hatem de Catch Wrestling in Fortaleza, Brazil<br /><br />June 27 -- Legit Pro Wrestling UK in Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom<br /><br />June 28 -- Let's Shoot 2015/Mayan World Championships of Catch Wrestling in Guatemala City, Guatemala <br /><br />July 11 -- Luis Ciraiz Catch Wrestling seminar and tournament in Kingston, Ontario, Canada<br /><br />July 18 -- 2015 North American Catch Wrestling and Freestyle Sambo Championships in Montreal, Quebec, Canada<br /><br />August 29 -- 3rd Annual Challenge and PA/NJ State King of Catch Wrestling Tournament, in Hamilton Square, New Jersey, USA<br /><br />September 17-20 -- Snake Pit USA catch wrestling tournament at 2015 Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness and Performance Weekend, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br /><br />There will also very likely be catch wrestling tournaments at the 2015 MMA World Expo in New York when those dates are finalized, and the annual International Week at the Snake Pit in Wigan, England. In addition, more events are expected to be announced, as well as more details provided about the events already set.<br /><br />In addition, discussed is the need for more and better media coverage and reporting of catch wrestling events, the pitfalls of the absence of a central coordinating body for catch wrestling, why catch wrestling organizations should stay away from the increasingly corrupt and disgraced Olympic movement, and much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-06-14T15_27_29-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredUpcomingWorldCatchWrestlingTournamentSchedule" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/06/no-holds-barred-upcoming-world-catch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-9082514997210336556Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:21:00 +00002015-06-10T17:21:16.548-04:00boxingDeontay WilderEddie GoldmanEric MolinaheavyweightsNo Holds BarredShowtimeNo Holds Barred: Deontay Wilder, Eric Molina, The Heavyweights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V8nw8Wfppwk/VXiopZUyxII/AAAAAAAAHEc/aKcjAoF9Uag/s1600/WilderMolina%2Bbanner%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V8nw8Wfppwk/VXiopZUyxII/AAAAAAAAHEc/aKcjAoF9Uag/s320/WilderMolina%2Bbanner%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />(Wilder Photo Credit: Bill Hoffman)<br /><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with heavyweight boxers Deontay Wilder and Eric Molina. Wilder (33-0, 32 KOs), who holds the WBC heavyweight belt, will face the huge underdog Molina (23-2, 17 KOs) in Birmingham, Alabama, headlining a card which will be televised live in the U.S. on Showtime.<br /><br />We spoke with Deontay Wilder and Eric Molina on a media conference call last Wednesday.<br /><br />While Molina is given almost no chance of defeating Wilder and this fight has been criticized by many, we discuss why these types of fights are typical in boxing, where there is no central governing body. We also discuss the future of the heavyweight division, including the top champion Wladimir Klitschko, undefeated fighters like Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, and what appear to be plans to develop Wilder into a major star. We also discuss the resurgence of interest in boxing this year, how several recent televised mismatches have nonetheless drawn good TV ratings in the U.S., why major premium TV networks are essentially acting as promoters, and much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-06-10T13_52_57-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredDeontayWilderEricMolinaTheHeavyweights" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/06/no-holds-barred-deontay-wilder-eric.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-1516111335724786039Sun, 07 Jun 2015 18:12:00 +00002015-06-07T14:12:09.630-04:00BrasilBrazilcatch wrestlingCopa Euclydes HatemDaniel MachadoEddie Goldmanjiu-jitsuNo Holds BarredTatuNo Holds Barred: Daniel Machado on June 14 Copa Euclydes Hatem of Catch Wrestling in Brazil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vjoFv2DdIw8/VXSIm5C3RZI/AAAAAAAAHD0/1kYHMIXUSd4/s1600/Copa%2BEuclydes%2BHatem%2Bde%2BCatch%2BWrestling.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vjoFv2DdIw8/VXSIm5C3RZI/AAAAAAAAHD0/1kYHMIXUSd4/s320/Copa%2BEuclydes%2BHatem%2Bde%2BCatch%2BWrestling.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9EJHneFiU7Q/VXSIqnAzmQI/AAAAAAAAHD8/IEDZ8BD-14I/s1600/Copa%2BEuclydes%2BHatem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9EJHneFiU7Q/VXSIqnAzmQI/AAAAAAAAHD8/IEDZ8BD-14I/s320/Copa%2BEuclydes%2BHatem.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HXvoaWNVaK4/VXSIuea8RLI/AAAAAAAAHEE/HU4OO5mOC-U/s1600/Catch%2BWrestling%2BBrasil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HXvoaWNVaK4/VXSIuea8RLI/AAAAAAAAHEE/HU4OO5mOC-U/s320/Catch%2BWrestling%2BBrasil.jpg" width="317" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with martial artist <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Daniel-Machado-Brazilian-Jiu-Jitsu/1415728291984484" target="_blank">Daniel Machado</a></b>.<br /><br />Besides teaching Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, he is involved in what will be the first catch wrestling competition in Brazil in about a half-century, the <b><a href="http://catchbrazil.com.br/copa-euclydes-hatem-2015" target="_blank">2015 Copa Euclydes Hatem de Catch Wrestling</a></b>.<br /><br />Named in honor of the legendary Euclydes "Tatu" Hatem, who was the father of Luta Livre and a successful catch wrestler, this event takes place Sunday, June 14, at the BNB Clube de Fortaleza in Fortaleza, Brazil.<br /><br />We spoke with Daniel Machado by Skype Thursday.<br /><br />Discussing Euclydes Hatem, who lived from 1914 to 1984 and had his most success as an athlete in the 1930s and 40s, he said he was "in 300 wars over almost 40 years of fighting. He's one of the guys that finished George Gracie, which at that time was the Gracie with a lot of victories."<br /><br />Tatu, he went on, didn't get "the respect that he deserved." He was the "father" of Luta Livre. As for Tatu's competition with the Gracies, Daniel Machado noted that the Gracies "used to do catch."<br /><br />He stressed: "It comes all together, jiu-jitsu and the catch as well."<br /><br />We discussed the rules of this event, where you can win by pin or submission, it is best-of-three in three, three-minute rounds, there are no points, but there are judges to avoid draws. There will also be both men's and women's competition.<br /><br />Re-establishing an understanding of the history of catch wrestling in Brazil is also a task being carried out by the people involved in this event. Christiano Martins Milfont has been working with Tatu's family to develop media about catch wrestling in Brazil and Tatu's role, and to popularize it.<br /><br />We also discussed the plans to hold two more catch wrestling events in Brazil this year, future plans to hold international events and work toward holding a world championship, and much, much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-06-07T10_18_45-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredDanielMachadoOnJune14CopaEuclydesHatemOfCatch" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/06/no-holds-barred-daniel-machado-on-june.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-2991362510009819432Fri, 05 Jun 2015 16:24:00 +00002015-06-05T12:24:07.889-04:00Andrew Jenningsanti-corruption agencyarrestsDeclan HillEddie GoldmanFIFAfootballfreelanceJens WeinreichjournalistsMarius VizerNo Holds BarredscandalSepp BlattersoccersportSportAccordNo Holds Barred: Declan Hill on the FIFA Scandal and the Need for a World Anti-Corruption Agency for Sport<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qQCaLy1s6QM/VXHL2VIEjFI/AAAAAAAAHDU/7Az4VB1FjvY/s1600/Declan-030_Twitter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qQCaLy1s6QM/VXHL2VIEjFI/AAAAAAAAHDU/7Az4VB1FjvY/s320/Declan-030_Twitter.jpg" width="313" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with investigative journalist, academic, and expert on match-fixing in international football, <b><a href="http://declanhill.com/" target="_blank">Declan Hill</a></b>.<br /><br />We have just seen the arrests on corruption charges of numerous top officials of FIFA, the international governing of football, the world's most popular sport, which is known as soccer in North America and elsewhere. More arrests and indictments are expected, all of which has led to the resignation of FIFA president Sepp Blatter, just four days after having been re-elected for a fifth term.<br /><br />The ongoing public exposures of FIFA's wrongdoing and the subsequent arrests have raised the questions of where else in sport is corruption so rampant, and what needs to be done to fight it.<br /><br />To discuss all this, we spoke with Declan Hill by phone Thursday.<br /><br />"We definitely need an international anti-corruption agency for sport," he stated.<br /><br />A number of combat sports athletes in recent years have said they have been approached to fix fights and matches "for large sums of money" but have turned these attempted bribes down, he said.<br /><br />"But they've almost inevitably never gone forward, because they don't trust the authorities in their own sport, not to either be behind it, or who would in some ways try to punish them for blowing the whistle," he noted.<br /><br />"We need an agency where good, honest fighters can go and report what's happened, where an honest administrator working for a sports organization can go and blow the whistle on something. And also an agency that can set the standard, set the standards of transparency, say, 'This is what a good sports organization should do. Here are the basic protocols, just the basic business practices, here's the basic guidelines of what a true sporting organization should do.'<br /><br />"It's not all that difficult. There have been a lot of studies on it. There have been a lot of reports and a lot of stuff. But this is what needs to happen."<br /><br />We discussed more on the "surreal" story of FIFA's widespread corruption scandal and the arrests last week; the crucial role of freelance and independent journalists like Andrew Jennings and Jens Weinreich in relentlessly exposing FIFA's corruption, and the failure of the mainstream media in this regard; the "desperate" need for an international anti-corruption agency for sport; the crisis in SportAccord and the pressure from the IOC which led to the resignation of SportAccord president Marius Vizer, also shortly after being unanimously re-elected; the crisis in world sport, which is reaching a boiling point where open rebellions are taking place against sporting institutions which were once viewed as untouchable and revered; and much, much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-06-05T08_59_21-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredDeclanHillOnTheFifaScandalAndTheNeedForAWorld" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/06/no-holds-barred-declan-hill-on-fifa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-4502684923801698253Wed, 03 Jun 2015 22:10:00 +00002015-06-03T18:10:56.352-04:00Aron MartinezboxingDominic BreazealeEddie GoldmanNo Holds BarredPBC on NBCRobert GuerreroYasmany ConsuegraNo Holds Barred: Robert Guerrero, Aron Martinez, Dominic Breazeale, Yasmany Consuegra, PBC on NBC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bWBSv7ZlUE0/VW965qnJFYI/AAAAAAAAHC0/GiqTUQQepws/s1600/ROBERT%2BGUERRERO%252C%2BARON%2BMARTINEZ%2Bto%2Bedit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="290" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bWBSv7ZlUE0/VW965qnJFYI/AAAAAAAAHC0/GiqTUQQepws/s320/ROBERT%2BGUERRERO%252C%2BARON%2BMARTINEZ%2Bto%2Bedit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with boxers Robert Guerrero, Aron Martinez, Dominic Breazeale, and Yasmany Consuegra, who will be featured on the PBC on NBC broadcast this Saturday, June 6.<br /><br />In the main event, the veteran Guerrero (32-3-1, 18 KOs) takes on the underdog Martinez (19-3-1, 4 KOs) in a welterweight bout scheduled for ten rounds. In the co-feature, two unbeaten heavyweight prospects, U.S. Olympian Breazeale (14-0, 13 KOs) and Cuban native Consuegra (17-0, 14 KOs) face off, also in a bout scheduled for ten rounds.<br /><br />This card takes place Saturday, June 6, at the StubHub Center In Carson, California. It will be televised live and for free in the U.S. on NBC, starting at 3 PM EDT/noon PDT. This is the latest card in the Premier Boxing Champions series, which airs on several TV networks.<br /><br />We spoke with Robert Guerrero, Aron Martinez, Dominic Breazeale, and Yasmany Consuegra on a media conference call Tuesday.<br /><br />We also comment on how the PBC series, with some exceptions, has been putting on many competitive match-ups, how they have featured several high-profile upsets and fights which have developed in unexpected ways, how their plan is to build the stars of the future through exposure on free TV rather than through the much smaller audiences watching premium cable networks, and why the PBC cards overall have become must-see television.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-06-03T14_26_38-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredRobertGuerreroAronMartinezDominicBreazealeYasmany" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/06/no-holds-barred-robert-guerrero-aron.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-6513976612586213020Sun, 31 May 2015 14:03:00 +00002015-05-31T10:03:07.038-04:00Eddie GoldmanErnesto AguilarfighterHoustoninequityKPFTlaborMMANo Holds BarredReebokUFCZuffaNo Holds Barred: Ernesto Aguilar on MMA, Labor, Inequity, and the Reebok Ripoff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iapjLOhR9y8/VWq_yvlIfGI/AAAAAAAAHBw/IqUALPV0Oqo/s1600/Ernesto%2BAguilar%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iapjLOhR9y8/VWq_yvlIfGI/AAAAAAAAHBw/IqUALPV0Oqo/s320/Ernesto%2BAguilar%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8FBKiCJf5bc/VWq_1L7GdMI/AAAAAAAAHB4/A3RlOu0gb_g/s1600/KPFT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8FBKiCJf5bc/VWq_1L7GdMI/AAAAAAAAHB4/A3RlOu0gb_g/s1600/KPFT.jpg" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with <b><a href="https://twitter.com/eaXLR" target="_blank">Ernesto Aguilar</a></b>.<br /><br />He is a writer and the program director of Pacifica radio station KPFT in Houston, Texas, and serves on the board of directors of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, the oldest community radio network in the United States.<br /><br />This past week, an article he wrote for the Guardian of the U.K. was published, called <b><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/may/26/ronda-rousey-makes-3m-a-year-but-most-ufc-fighters-dont-get-what-they-deserve" target="_blank">"Ronda Rousey makes $3m a year but most UFC fighters don't get what they deserve"</a></b>.<br /><br />We spoke with Ernesto Aguilar by phone Friday.<br /><br />"I've been a follower of mixed martial arts for a long time, and I think from the time I started to watch, I began to have some questions about it," he said. <br /><br />"I grew up as a boxing fan here in Texas. Houston has been a big fight town for many, many years. George Foreman is of course from here, and so I've always been a fan of combat sports. And when I got into MMA, I was curious about what the outcomes and the futures for fighters were. It was something that's always been in the back of my mind. And thinking about the sponsorship deal and just some of the fallout of that, seeing the issues that so many mixed martial arts fighters are facing, not just post-career, but during their careers and having to figure out ways to make ends meet, and also just realizing frankly that when these deals end up happening, as we saw with the Eddie Alvarez contract a few years back, and that was a pretty lucrative contract, these contracts seem to tend to favor the promoters."<br /><br />All these types of conditions have led to a brewing MMA fighter rebellion. This is seen in many ways, including numerous fighters filing class-action lawsuits against Zuffa's anti-competitive practices, and a torrent of public statements and interviews by fighters condemning UFC's new multimillion dollar sponsorship deal with Reebok as robbing the fighters of thousands and thousands of dollars of sponsorship money which up until now they have relied upon to a great degree as income, especially with the small percentage of overall revenue going to the fighters, a percentage which is far less than in other comparable sports, and even less than the historically corrupt sport of professional boxing. This Reebok ripoff has been a turning point in this incipient fighter rebellion, and there is now open talk of fighters banding together to form some type of union or association.<br /><br />"You brought up this thing about class struggle, and about fighters getting organized," Ernesto Aguilar said. "This also is going to require, I guess in my opinion, that fans more actively push promoters to see the benefits of fighters being organized as well."<br /><br />While fighters may rightly have a fear of retaliation from the promoters for trying to protect their long-term interests and organizing, fans do not. <br /><br />"We as fans need to be pushing that envelope, pushing promoters to more actively step up and provide the labor protections that they should. And if they're not willing to, we need to ask representatives and politicians to get involved," he said.<br /><br />We discussed the legal fiction that these MMA fighters under exclusive contracts are individual contractors; how there are comparisons between this fighter rebellion and the grape boycott and strike activities of farm workers organized by Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers union; why the UFC-Reebok deal is "a very bad deal for fighters"; the issue of traumatic brain injury in combat sports and how a relatively more dangerous style of fighting has been emphasized by MMA promoters than in the past; the role of many members of the media as shills for promoters; and much, much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-05-31T00_20_46-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredErnestoAguilarOnMmaLaborInequityAndTheReebokRipoff" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/05/no-holds-barred-ernesto-aguilar-on-mma.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-8816053526656044186Fri, 29 May 2015 07:05:00 +00002015-05-29T03:05:37.016-04:00athletesEddie GoldmanFallon FoxGame FacehomophobiaLGBTMMANo Holds BarredsportsTerrence Lamar ClemenstranstransgendertransphobiaNo Holds Barred: Fallon Fox on 'Game Face' Documentary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NaIdj4V9LnM/VWeRPEwGImI/AAAAAAAAHBE/qWLPzp7uJ7g/s1600/Game%2BFace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NaIdj4V9LnM/VWeRPEwGImI/AAAAAAAAHBE/qWLPzp7uJ7g/s320/Game%2BFace.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SvG_N_QNSpo/VWeRROGI3LI/AAAAAAAAHBM/QcihVJCXB7Y/s1600/EddieFallonFox063013c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SvG_N_QNSpo/VWeRROGI3LI/AAAAAAAAHBM/QcihVJCXB7Y/s320/EddieFallonFox063013c.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with MMA fighter <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/FallonFoxofficial" target="_blank">Fallon Fox</a></b>.<br /><br />The first openly transgender MMA fighter, she is the subject, along with openly gay college basketball player Terrence Lamar Clemens, of a new documentary <b><a href="http://www.gamefacedoc.com/" target="_blank">"Game Face"</a></b>.<br /><br />Directed by Michiel Thomas, this film documents the inspiring coming out stories of these athletes.<br /><br />We spoke with Fallon Fox by phone Thursday.<br /><br />"'Game Face' is a documentary about LGBTQ athletes, what happens to them before they come out and during the process of when they come out as LGBTQ athletes in sports," she said.<br /><br />"We have been filming for about a year and a half, almost two years with production to get this project complete. So I'm very happy that it's coming to full fruition as of late. So It's making its tour around film festivals, so people can check it out there as it makes its tour around those festivals. And you can also catch it whenever we find a distributor and put it out for the mass public."<br /><br />We also discussed why acceptance and understanding of transgender people and athletes are growing, why she is currently not signed by any MMA promotion despite her 5-1 pro record, why fight promoters who refuse to sign her will be judged badly by history, the prospects for her getting signed to fight, her many other activities including writing, and much more.<br /><br />"Game Face" is an important and worthy documentary which is both enlightening and moving, and is heartily recommended to be seen.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-05-28T14_34_30-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredFallonFoxOngameFaceDocumentary" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is also available on mobile phones and iPads through <a href="http://landing.stitcher.com/?vurl=noholdsbarred"><strong><span style="color: black;">Stitcher</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/05/no-holds-barred-fallon-fox-on-game-face.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-9021314510495747206Sun, 24 May 2015 19:24:00 +00002015-05-24T15:24:44.392-04:00American Top TeamEddie GoldmanJessica AguilarLGBTMMANo Holds BarredUFCWSOFNo Holds Barred: Jessica Aguilar, Free Agent<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BlcebhXtHvI/VWEgesi0V2I/AAAAAAAAHAQ/9Mi2S2AbqKY/s1600/Aguilar-Fujino%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BlcebhXtHvI/VWEgesi0V2I/AAAAAAAAHAQ/9Mi2S2AbqKY/s320/Aguilar-Fujino%2B1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />(Photo credit: Lucas Noonan/WSOF)<br /><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with the world's top-ranked MMA fighter in the women's 115-pound division, American Top Team fighter <b><a href="https://twitter.com/jagatt" target="_blank">Jessica Aguilar</a></b>.<br /><br />A surprising announcement was made this past Monday by World Series of Fighting (WSOF), where she had been women's strawweight champion and had not lost a fight, that she was being released from the final fight of her contract "so that she can ideally pursue competition where it is strongest in her weight division."<br /><br />Now a free agent, we spoke with Jessica Aguilar by phone Thursday about her plans.<br /><br />Calling the WSOF people "awesome" and indicating that this was an amicable parting, she said that in her stay there, "It was hard to find opponents." While they still did find her opponents, and she had won all three fights in WSOF, she has not been booked since November and had no fight planned there.<br /><br />"I just wanted to fight top-level opponents at my weight class," she said. "The ultimate goal is to be the best fighter out there at 115 pounds, and for me to continue proving that, I believe that I have to step up," to which, she added, WSOF management agreed. <br /><br />"Now I'm a free agent," she said. <br /><br />"I plan on becoming a UFC champion, because the talent there of athletes they have, the top females in my division. So that's my plan, Eddie."<br /><br />She did note that as we spoke, she had not signed with any MMA organization, and could also pursue other options.<br /><br />We also discussed why her focus on signing with a new organization has meant that she cannot participate in the upcoming 2015 ADCC Submission Fighting World Championships, August 28-30 in Sao Paulo, Brazil; her many community activities, including plans for this year's LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) Pride events in June; and much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-05-23T17_26_08-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredJessicaAguilarFreeAgent" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is also available on mobile phones and iPads through <a href="http://landing.stitcher.com/?vurl=noholdsbarred"><strong><span style="color: black;">Stitcher</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/05/no-holds-barred-jessica-aguilar-free.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-7293946663408204006Thu, 21 May 2015 17:07:00 +00002015-05-21T13:07:53.820-04:00Billy Two Riverscatch wrestlingEddie GoldmanGrizzly GymGuatemalaLet's ShootMayan World ChampionshipsMike MartelleNo Holds BarredNo Holds Barred: Mike Martelle on Let's Shoot 2015/Mayan World Championships of Catch Wrestling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VYlLQbERUQY/VV1_8ubp24I/AAAAAAAAG_0/VUPkwlTrgRU/s1600/LetsShoot%2B2015%2Bto%2Bedit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VYlLQbERUQY/VV1_8ubp24I/AAAAAAAAG_0/VUPkwlTrgRU/s320/LetsShoot%2B2015%2Bto%2Bedit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with Mike Martelle, the owner and head instructor of the <b><a href="http://www.grizzlygym.com/" target="_blank">Grizzly Gym</a></b>.<br /><br />We spoke with him by phone Wednesday.<br /><br />At the end of June, Mike Martelle will once again be traveling to Guatemala City, Guatemala, to host the annual Let's Shoot catch wrestling tournament and conduct a seminar. The tournament will take place Sunday, June 28, at the Salon Municipal (Municipal Auditorium) in the San Lucas neighborhood in Guatemala City. <br /><br />"You might recall that last year's catch wrestling tournament in Guatemala City, we did the math afterward and realized that it had actually had the largest turnout of any catch wrestling event of the modern era, which was something we're very proud of and we're continuing to build up," he said.<br /><br />"This year we're hoping to be even bigger than the last."<br /><br />This year's event, Let's Shoot 2015, also features a catch wrestling rules tournament, and with a very special name.<br /><br />"We're calling it the Mayan World Championships, given that it's located deep in the heart of what used to be the Mayan world," he said. <br /><br />The event is also "subtitled" the Billy Two Rivers International Championship, in honor of the 80th birthday of Billy Two Rivers, the retired pro wrestler, catch wrestler, and actor, who was also a leader of the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, just outside Montreal.<br /><br />We discussed more on the format of the tournament, which is an open event where victory is attained by pin or submission in two out of three falls, and all submissions are legal.<br /><br />In addition, we discussed the need for more catch wrestling tournaments, the importance of events like the July 18 North American Catch Wrestling Championships in Montreal, the positive steps of more and more catch wrestling organizations around the world working together, and much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-05-20T23_25_51-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredMikeMartelleOnLetsShoot2015mayanWorldChampionshipsOf" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is also available on mobile phones and iPads through <a href="http://landing.stitcher.com/?vurl=noholdsbarred"><strong><span style="color: black;">Stitcher</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/05/no-holds-barred-mike-martelle-on-lets.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-3379404921628394696Tue, 19 May 2015 15:14:00 +00002015-05-19T11:14:28.739-04:00AbsolutionBJJcatch wrestlingEddie GoldmanfilmGraciejiu-jitsuJosh BarnettNo Holds BarredNo Holds Barred: Josh Barnett on His New Film 'Absolution', Catch Wrestling, and Jiu-Jitsu<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gedf3tRP3gM/VVq62SYzFFI/AAAAAAAAG_A/uuqc-8fzTBA/s1600/Absolution.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gedf3tRP3gM/VVq62SYzFFI/AAAAAAAAG_A/uuqc-8fzTBA/s320/Absolution.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lCHeLC98Sm4/VVq64gAFERI/AAAAAAAAG_I/Fsnitgn9Nh0/s1600/Josh%2BBarnett%2BRyron%2BGracie%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="175" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lCHeLC98Sm4/VVq64gAFERI/AAAAAAAAG_I/Fsnitgn9Nh0/s320/Josh%2BBarnett%2BRyron%2BGracie%2B1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cnufw8DsXQ4/VVq67LwW7rI/AAAAAAAAG_Q/y9sM_QvaYH0/s1600/Josh%2BBarnett%2BRyron%2BGracie%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cnufw8DsXQ4/VVq67LwW7rI/AAAAAAAAG_Q/y9sM_QvaYH0/s320/Josh%2BBarnett%2BRyron%2BGracie%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with catch wrestler <b><a href="https://twitter.com/JoshLBarnett" target="_blank">Josh Barnett</a></b>.<br /><br />We spoke with him by phone Monday.<br /><br />This is a very busy time for Josh Barnett, as a movie in which he is co-starring has just been released. Named "Absolution", this is an action film featuring Steven Seagal, Byron Mann, Adina Stetcu, Massimo Dobrovic, and Vinnie Jones. Josh Barnett played a "bad guy" named Colt, which he said thus far has been "the biggest role I've had" in film.<br /><br />In the combat sports world, he has been busy as well. On May 9, at the Metamoris 6 grappling event, he successfully defended his heavyweight title by submitting Ryron Gracie with a toehold.<br /><br />While some see antipathy between catch wrestling and jiu-jitsu, Josh Barnett expressed nothing but respect for jiu-jitsu and the Gracie family, noting that he has "always gotten along with all the Gracies."<br /><br />He explained: "Yes, I am a catch wrestler. I love catch-as-catch-can wrestling. I think it's the best. I love it as a sport, and as an art form, as a wrestling style. It is what I practice what I preach, and I preach it loudly.<br /><br />"But, it's not to be contrary to jiu-jitsu. That's the thing. It's not in spite of or to counteract or to diminish jiu-jitsu. I do it because it's what I love, not because I have a need for a rivalry or to put down what anybody else does. That kind of concept of a war with jiu-jitsu is really by somebody's creation on their own merit, not on my statements."<br /><br />We also discussed why more people from the broader wrestling community should become involved with catch wrestling, his upcoming activities in UFC including a reality show and a September 26 fight with Roy Nelson, more film projects, his work with the California Catch Wrestling Association, and much, much more.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-05-18T21_06_21-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredJoshBarnettOnHisNewFilmabsolutionCatchWrestling" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is also available on mobile phones and iPads through <a href="http://landing.stitcher.com/?vurl=noholdsbarred"><strong><span style="color: black;">Stitcher</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/05/no-holds-barred-josh-barnett-on-his-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507959.post-1926899447535599381Sun, 17 May 2015 15:55:00 +00002015-05-17T11:55:42.385-04:00Andre DirrellboxingChocolatitoEddie GoldmanEdgar SosaGennady GolovkinGGGHBOJames DeGaleNo Holds BarredPBCRoman GonzalezWillie MonroeNo Holds Barred: Andre Dirrell, James DeGale, Plus Golovkin-Monroe and Chocolatito-Sosa Reviews, PBC vs. HBO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d-eWJyw5XZA/VVi29GZWzUI/AAAAAAAAG-o/HPjCHl8wG_o/s1600/DirrellDeGale%2Bto%2Bedit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="312" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d-eWJyw5XZA/VVi29GZWzUI/AAAAAAAAG-o/HPjCHl8wG_o/s320/DirrellDeGale%2Bto%2Bedit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman previews the May 23 Andre Dirrell vs. James DeGale fight, and comments on the May 16 HBO Boxing telecast.<br /><br />On Saturday, May 23, Andre Dirrell of the U.S. (24-1, 16 KOs) takes on James DeGale of the U.K. (20-1, 14 KOs) at Boston University's Agganis Arena in a fight for the vacant IBF super middleweight belt. This fight, part of the Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) series, will be shown live Saturday afternoon in the U.S. on NBC, and live Saturday night in the U.K. on Sky Sports.<br /><br />Both Dirrell, a 2004 Olympic bronze medalist, and DeGale, a 2008 Olympic gold medalist, will be trying to capture their first world title. DeGale will also try to become the first British Olympic gold medalist to win a pro world title.<br /><br />We spoke with both Andre Dirrell and James DeGale on a media conference call Thursday.<br /><br />On Saturday, May 16, HBO telecast two title fights showcasing undefeated star fighters. Middleweight champ Gennady "GGG" Golovkin of Kazakhstan (33-0, 30 KOs) scored his 20th straight stoppage by dispatching overmatched and light-hitting challenger Willie Monroe Jr. of the U.S. (19-2, 6 KOs) by sixth-round TKO. Another star making his long overdue HBO debut was flyweight champ Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez of Nicaragua, who upped his record to 43-0 with 37 KOs by dominating and stopping the tough former 108-pound champion Edgar Sosa of Mexico (51-9, 30 KOs) with a second-round TKO.<br /><br />While the HBO card was undoubtedly entertaining to fight fans, we discuss how HBO is primarily showcasing the best fighters signed to that network, instead of primarily having the best fight the best in each weight class. We also contrast this to the past few PBC cards, as well as this coming Saturday's Dirrell-DeGale fight, which should be competitive and intriguing.<br /><br />You can play or download No Holds Barred<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://nhbnews.podomatic.com/entry/2015-05-17T08_24_21-07_00" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredAndreDirrellJamesDegalePlusGolovkin-monroeAnd" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: black;">here</span></strong></a>. If one link doesn't work, please try another.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is also available on mobile phones and iPads through <a href="http://landing.stitcher.com/?vurl=noholdsbarred"><strong><span style="color: black;">Stitcher</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />Also, No Holds Barred is available through <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&amp;s=143441"><strong><span style="color: black;">iTunes</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />The PodOmatic Podcast Player for iOS is available for free on the App Store.<br /><br />The No Holds Barred theme song is called "The Heist", which is also available on iTunes by composer <a href="http://magicpumpkinstudios.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ian Snow</span></strong></a>.<br /><br />No Holds Barred is free to listen to and is sponsored by:<br /><br /><a href="http://americantopteam.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">American Top Team</span></strong></a>. Whether you're a beginner or a champion, train with the champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, wrestling, grappling, and mixed martial arts at American Top Team. Check out their web site at <a href="http://americantopteam.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">AmericanTopTeam.com</span></strong></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://defensesoap.com/"><strong><span style="color: black;">Defense Soap</span></strong></a>, an effective, deep penetrating body soap with natural antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial soap ingredients. Defense Soap is the best cleansing body soap for men and women athletes who are involved in contact sports such as MMA, wrestling, grappling, jiu-jitsu, and judo, to help their antifungal, anti-ringworm, anti-jock itch strategy. Check out their web site, at <a href="http://defensesoap.com/"> <strong><span style="color: black;">DefenseSoap.com</span></strong></a>.http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/2015/05/no-holds-barred-andre-dirrell-james.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eddie Goldman)0